A special report by Katie Barnard on her work experience at Narrabri . ... I have been interested in astronomy for some time, and so I thought work experience would be a good idea to see what it was really like. ... In my time at the ATCA, I worked with Naomi McClure-Griffiths, a PhD student from the university of Minnesota. ... Naomi gave me some `cubes' (seen as movies) of different sections of the sky, from observations at Parkes, to look through and identify possible shells. ...

The picture above was made with this demo POV file and this hand shower object POV file . This is three objects: a hand shower head, a wall mount bar, and a connecting hose. This is one of my least detailed objects; there's not even a clip to mount the hand shower to the sliding bar, it just floats. The hand shower itself does look pretty stylish, very rounded and cool looking. ... The showerhead is about yay big. ... WARNING: This POV object is based on a real object. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... Bad Astronomy : The Moon only shows one face to us because it is not rotating. Better astronomy : The Moon only shows one face because it is rotating, once every time it revolves around the Earth. ... Place the Moon model on the table about 30 centimeters (one foot) away with the X facing the Earth model. ... You'll see that to keep the X facing the Earth model, you have to rotate the Moon model as it goes around the Earth model . ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Strongest rfi peaked up when pointing in the general direction of the HQ/radioRedentor towers. 13jan16 : azimuth swings showed lots of rfi below 5150 MHz. ... It is interesting to note that we've had trouble with ViVinet (old name for KSXpressnet) and 4net before.. on 04jun13 during a road trip to yiyi avila's tower, these two companies were found to be broadcasting illegally below 5150 MHz. looking for 5 GHz rfi when looking at yiyi's tower . ... The rfi peaked up when pointed at yiyi's tower. ...

Classroom Activity: A Viewgraph Comet . ... This will simulate the Earth's orbit around the Sun. ... Draw several comets along the path with their tails pointing away from the Sun. ... You can create other viewgraphs that have a smaller scale and show several comet orbits or constellations. ... Show how the Earth's orbit is almost circular compared to the comet's. Explain that the Sun is at the focus of the orbits of the planets, asteroids, and comets. ... Actually, comets have two tails. ...

... Club By-laws . ... Other Club Activities . ... Public Nights . ... Dr. James Green, NASA, Director Planetary Science will be our esteemed speaker on Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM in Peyton Hall on the Princeton University campus. ... Our astronomers setup telescopes for public use at Communiversity in Princeton, Super Science Saturday at the NJ State Museum in Trenton and at various public events around Mercer County. ... Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton, Inc., ...

... The chapters that follow show the development of SNEAKERS . Chapter is a look at other work which is relevant to this project, covering CE, work in Artificial Intelligence, or work in User Interface development. ... Chapter highlights the choice of the domain in which SNEAKERS operates, and the reasons behind the choice. Chapter shows a logical view of the system design, while Chapter details the implementational issues which affected the final project, and shows how the project was developed. ...

... I sat her down right next to me and I got her a beer While I mixed that sound on the stage so the band could hear The more I watched her watch me play, the less I thought of to say And when they walked offstage the drummer swept that girl away. ... Now we got country and western on the bus, [?] ... People, stay just a little bit longer; We wanna play just a little bit longer Well, the roadie don't mind And the union don't mind If we take a little time and we leave it all behind Sing one more song. ...

... Bringing news from across the Universe to children all around the world . ... But when you look at space photograph, where there s no natural sense for how big objects should look, it is much more difficult to judge! ... It shows a cloud of dust and gas (shown in red) next to a bright star. ... These fake lines are called diffraction spikes . Although diffraction spikes add something to the photo that shouldn t really be there, many people like them and think that they look nice. ...

... The main task of this Working Group has been to review the state-of-theart knowledge of the Milky Way galaxy, to identify the future challenges, and to propose which tools (in terms of facilities, infrastructures, instruments, science policies) would be needed to successfully tackle and solve the remaining open questions. ... This Working Group has made recommendations that would allow dissecting our backyard laboratory, the Galaxy, even further. ...

... It turns out one possibility is a form of matter/energy invented by Einstein in the 1920s to make sure his equations of General Relativity did not predict the Expansion of the Universe. Although Einstein was willing to predict several things with his equations of General Relativity, he obviously thought an expanding Universe was too much, and so he invented the Cosmological Constant, which repels itself, and was meant to balance the force of gravity, and make the Universe static. ...

... The Bubble Nebula . 14.12.2013 . ... Cataloged as NGC 7635, it is also known simply as The Bubble Nebula. ... The annual Geminid meteor shower is raining down on planet Earth this week. ... Comet Lovejoy over a Windmill . ... Everest Panorama from Mars . ... Naked Eye Nova Centauri 2013 . ... For now, so is new naked eye Nova Centauri 2013. ... Very faint planetary nebula Abell 7 is some 1,800 light-years distant, just south of Orion in planet Earth's skies in the constellation Lepus, The Hare. ...

Astronomy Education News . ... T he SELB Schools Cluster Programme is an innovative learning strategy developed by the Armagh Rhymers in collaboration with the Armagh Observatory to teach children science and the arts in a new and fun way. During this programme, children from seven schools in Armagh have learnt astronomy through storytelling and music; and creative writing and music through science and astronomy. ... Schools involved: . ... Armagh Observatory - Astronomy Education . ...

... The problem turned out to be that I was always using the same background in Photoshop, and when I made it transparent, the edge pixels, having been anti-aliased to merge with that color, did not turn transparent. Now I always use the same background color in Photoshop that I intend to use on my web page. ... Now, one of the big tricks here involves the translation from RGB mode to Indexed Colors. ... Note down the 2 colors it chose to dither together and hit Command-Z to undo the mode change. ...

... Meteors and Meteorites . ... By admin August 2, 2011 Posted in: August . 13 August 2009: A perseid flashes through the sky (Image credit: Andreas M†ґller via wikimedia.org) . ... Not all meteors are sporadic events, the regular meteor showers occur when the Earth bulldozes through a great swarm of meteoroids drifting in orbit round the Sun. ... They are at their best in the pre-dawn hours, as the face of the Earth turning towards the Sun catches more meteors as the Earth moves through space. ...

The participants have to be familiarized in advance with the site of the round during the daytime in the case the round (part of the round) organized during the night. In the case the round have a task with a telescope (except for observations with the already adjusted and guided telescope) every participant has to be familiarized with that actual telescope, on which one the participant will work during the round . ... APAO 2005 Irkutsk , IAO 2006 Bombay, APAO 2006 Vladivostok, IAO 2007 Crimea, . ...

... A rough estimation is that in the United States there is one planetarium per 100,000 population, ranging in size from the Hayden Planetarium's 20-meter dome seating 430 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the floor. ... Together dblo associates make a huge impact in the architecture, interior design and development arena in London. ... With the holidays around the corner what better way to spoil your family than with your very own private home cinema. ...

D. I. Panyushev Independent University of Moscow Moscow, Russia panyush@mccme.ru Adjoint vector fields on representation spaces: variations on a theme of Dixmier In [1], Jacques Dixmier proved a nice theorem on "adjoint vector fields" on semisimple Lie algebras. ... First, we show that a similar result holds for vector fields on the dual of certain Lie algebras that resemble semisimple ones. This class includes certain contractions of semisimple Lie algebras. ... References [1] J. Dixmier. ...

... Apr 14, 2016 - Monthly Meeting . ... The Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ATMoB) is an astronomy club devoted to telescope making, observing, and studying the heavens. ... CURRENT MOON . ... April Sky . ... Lyrids Meteor Shower . ... Sources: NASA JPL Space Calendar , StarDate Online , Sky Telescope , Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , RASC Observer’s Handbook , Abrams Planetarium Sky Calendar and Astronomy Magazine . ... Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Moon . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Gravitational wave search provides insights into galaxy evolution and mergers . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Working with color . ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...